This blog is about some of the things in my life that I enjoy doing - Zentangles®, cycling, and needle crafts. Hopefully you will enjoy the variety and may it encourage you to begin or follow your own adventures. Welcome, Donald Wilka

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Friday, January 25, 2013

This week's Diva Challenge is to help bring awareness, and support to those who have to contend with, Moebius Syndrome. For those of you familiar with The Diva, her youngest son has this rare congenital nerve disorder. January 24 is Moebius Syndrome Awareness Day. Laura plans to share the link for the submissions with their support group. I had hoped to get this posted before the 24th but it has been a hectic week. I was not sure I was going to get something done at all. Due to feeling the time pressure, I opted to go with something simple. Purple is the color for MSAD and Laura suggested that could incorporate this into the tiles if we wanted to. I did use purple but it did not show up very well in the picture, I used a purple micron for the ribbon. Here is what I came up with. Hope you like it.

Tangles used: Bales, Bricks

Tried to get the "negative effect" with the twist. It turned out okay but was a challenge with the white gel pens. definitely do not cover the same way as the microns. Unfortunately they do not make a white micron. Did get a little better with it the more I used it. Do not use the white gel pens that much and they seem to cover differently than other gel pens. I did not notice that I tend to hold the pen on an angle. Found that with the white gel pen definitely works better when you hold it more upright. That was a separate challenge in itself. As was doing was definitely thinking of the kids, and their families, with this syndrome and hoping they have access to the necessary supports and services to deal with this syndrome.

I am off to I am the Diva to check out all the other submissions. I have been so busy that have not had a chance to see many of them yet. If you have not all ready been there would encourage you to check it out.

Thanks for visiting. As always, comments are appreciated, encouraged and welcomed.

Thanks. Did not want to do a lot of tangling because I felt it would hide the Moebius strip. When started was not sure if I was going to do this or another tangle. Since I was having trouble keeping them consistent decided to just make them bricks and shade the space in between. Turned out okay.

Very, very nice!I agree about the gel pens and I don't like holding them straight up. I was told it's also better to hold the Microns straight up, also, to make them last longer. Never seem to be able to do it, though. And I go through a lot of them very quickly.Barbara